Contact/Donations

If you’d like to get in touch to donate quilt blocks, tops or finished quilts, organize a sewing or quilting bee in your area, or help spread the word, that would be great! Please email us at quiltsforquakesurvivors at gmail dot com.

We are gratefully accepting donations of quilt blocks, quilt tops or sandwiches, or other quilting materials. If you’d like to piece blocks to send in, or donate yardage, that would also be wonderful. Simple three-tier log cabin blocks made in this style, like the ones shown below with 3″ x 3″ centers and 2″ logs, are easy for us to use with the ones we’re piecing for a finished quilt, but we’d be glad to include other block styles of course! Our basic three-tier log cabin blocks are approximately 12″ across but again, other sizes and quilt patterns are wonderful too. We are expecting these sweet quilts to be a super varied and colorful community effort!

To donate quilt blocks, tops, or finished quilts, you can ship to us here in Portland:

Thank you, Amy! We are hoping that later on, when shipping is possible, we can connect with the right people at the right time and send small handmade quilts as gifts to recovering communities. Our first priority is making quilts to raise money to donate, and the personal gifts from all of us through the right organization are our secondary and hopeful mission.

Thank you for the suggestions on finding a way to do this when the time is right! We really appreciate them.

That would be amazing, Marcia! Thank you! We’ll get back to you after the first event with some more details. We’re flexible on the size of blocks + finished quilts but it would be good to have some general guidelines so we’ll post that soon too…

Our big deadline is May 8th so we have a little while – really appreciate it!

I am a quilting newbie and am a little confused by the math here. I’m taking Your First (Modern) Quilt class at Whipstitch and have some extra fabric I thought I’d use to send in a square or two. However I don’t see how 2″ strips and 3″x”3 squares will yield the same in a finished block. If I want to submit a block should I be cutting 2 1/2″ strips and 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2″ square?

Thanks!

(oh and great idea! I participated in a quilt project at work for a coworker diagnosed with brain cancer. People in the company donated fabric then some of us pieced it (simple strips, I only did 4) and a a quilter among us put it together. I thought many of the fabrics donated were ugly, but the finished quilt is beautiful, and the coworker was incredibly touched and thankful.)

Hey Julie! Thanks for your comment! I had just quickly measured a sample pieced block from the QfQ stash to get the 12.5″ dimension that I posted. But doing the math with 1/4″ seam allowances gives a 12″ block instead of 12.5″ – so thanks for checking, I’ve corrected in the post! Everyone pieces a little differently and it looks like that sample block was slightly narrowly pieced so it measured a little larger.

Here’s my math (and I’m the sleep-deprived mother of two young children, so please do check it, anyone!):

QfQ Block:

Center square: cut at 3″, 2.5″ across when pieced (lost 1/2″ total to piecing, 1/4″ on each side)

Tier 1 + 2: each one cut at 2″, 1.5″ across when pieced (ditto)

Tier 3: each one cut 2″, 1.75″ across when pieced (since it’s only sewn/joined on *one* side until assembled into a quilt, it only loses 1/4″ instead of 1/2″)

It’s lovely that you all did such a thoughtful project for you coworker. Inspiring that the fabrics combined so beautifully, too! And your class sounds really cool. We’d love to mix in some of your blocks if you want to send them in!!

A friend of mine is organizing a little quilting bee to make squares for you guys, and told be about this. I made 22 log cabin squares for you guys yesterday, and they’ll be sent to you soon. ( might make some more first)

Hi Susan! My art group is having a special meeting just to make quilt squares for your fabulous project. We are very excited to contribute. Two questions: does our fabric need to be pre-washed? What kind of thread is best to use?
Yay! Hope to see you soon.

I stumbled upon your website about the quilts for Japan. I would like to get one made for this. I will talk to some of my friends and see if we can’t do this. I see that you need them by the 30th of April. In the event that we do accomplish this, what is the mailing address for them? Is there any size requirements or pattern requirement? I hope “no” to each question so that we can just make whatever comes to mind. :-)Thank you for organizing this!

hi! no strict pattern or size requirement at all – we’re including log cabin along with other block patterns that people like to make, mixed together or separate. For size, we’re saying generally somewhere between 40 to 55 inches long per side – baby, child or lap size. Hope this all works for you – thank you so much!!!

today i am rallying a couple of enthusiastic 13 year old homeschoolers (and us moms) to make log cabin squares. we may take a few afternoons to build a collection then send it off to you. does that sound like the best way to go? thank you so much for spearheading this!

Hi! I’m not a quilter, unfortunately, but my mom was. She died a couple of years ago, and I’m just now working my way through what she left behind. I’ve found several sets of quilt blocks, but I’m not sure they meet your needs: they’re the kind you embroider, then piece together (and they’re not embroidered yet). You’re very welcome to them if you’d like them. I also have some quilt batting that I’d be happy to send your way if you’d like it! Thanks for all your generous work!

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Whow! 30 beautiful quilts went to Japan end of April. Thank you everyone!

Now all finished quilts will be listed for sale with 100% going to Mercy Corps.

We have received so many fabric strip and yardage donations so far, that we can no longer accept any more fabric donations! If you want to donate a finished quilt being listed in the shop, we'll gladly accept! Thank you!